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Nov 8, 2009
I know the dark side of Scientology...I almost lost my friend to it — The HeraldMore: heraldscotland.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jonny Jacobsen Source:
The Herald I knew Scientology was in trouble when the media moved on from the usual silly gossip about its celebrity members to much darker, disturbing issues at the heart of the movement. After a Paris court last month convicted several Scientologists and two organisations associated with the movement in France of organised fraud, and amid other investigations in France looking at a suicide and an alleged abduction, Oscar-winning film-maker Paul Haggis, a long-time member, quit Scientology. Haggis, who wrote and directed Crash, ...
Nov 4, 2005
Mirror Investigates: Inside Cult Castle — Daily Mirror (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Edwards Source:
Daily Mirror (UK) THE WEIRD RITUALS AT SCIENTOLOGY'S SUSSEX HQ THE trainee Scientologist clasps two tin cans which are connected by wires to an electric dial. A second, more senior member reads from a prompt card. "Have you ever destroyed a culture?" he asks. "Have you ever bred bodies for degrading purposes? Did you come to Earth for evil purposes?'' Down the corridor, another sect member listens to a series of lectures on how, 75 million years ago, an alien prince killed millions of ...
Jun 9, 1999
Scientologists pay for libel — Guardian Unlimited
Type: Press
Author(s):
Clare Dyer Source:
Guardian Unlimited The Church of Scientology agreed yesterday to pay £55,000 libel damages to a former member the church accused of waging a "hate campaign" against it. The controversial church, founded in the early 1950s by the late science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, apologised at the high court in London for publishing a defamatory leaflet about Bonnie Woods, an American who became a Scientologist in the 1970s but left the church in 1982. The out of court settlement ends a six-year legal ...
Mar 29, 1999
Abroad: Critics public and private keep pressure on Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Lucy Morgan Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Scientology leaders say they want peace. They say they want to stay out of court. But with both foes at home and foes abroad, that goal may be elusive. The spiritual home of the Church of Scientology is in Clearwater, but for many years now its leaders have had worldwide ambitions. But as disciples have carried L. Ron Hubbard's teachings away from America's shore, the reception has been almost universally chilly at best – and at times openly hostile. At one ...
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Zenon Panoussis Apr 15, 1994
Escape route from Scientology 'has never been busier' — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) A HUSBAND and wife team who help Church of Scientology members leave the controversial organisation say they have never been busier after a spate of national coverage surrounding the cult. Bonnie Woods, a former Scientologist, and her husband Richard formed Escape nearly three years ago and operate from their East Grinstead home. The couple claim to have given advice to about 100 former cult members. But the spotlight has been thrown on them and their work by a spate of stories ...
Apr 12, 1994
Scientology: the inside story — Victims who are 'fair game' — The Argus (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) [Transcribed by Anonymous <nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> 21 May 1995 07:35:27 +0100] The Church of Scientology may call itself a religion, but it does not have a reputation for turning the other cheek. For a week last month Jon Atack and his family were subjected to scenes like this outside their home in Cranston Road, East Grinstead. Why? The placard-carrying demonstrators are Scientologists, and they do not like Mr. Atack because he is an outspoken critic of the cult. The police were twice called ...
Mar 29, 1994
Scientology: the inside story — Just the worst two years of my life — The Argus (UK)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Paul Bracchi Source:
The Argus (UK) IN THE second part of his special investigation into the Church of Scientology, Argus chief reporter PAUL BRACCHI talks to a man who travelled 3,000 miles to join the Sussex-based cult. [A very small picture of Mr. Bracchi is shown, as in yesterday's article. A large picture, in the center of page 6, is shown of a man wearing a neat denim shirt, labelled: "Above: Nowell Matandirotya. "I feel I was exploited" A smaller picture shows a grim stone mansion, with ...
Jan 16, 1994
Cult took my son from me — Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Australia)
May 14, 1993
Cult brands vicar a 'nazi' in new row — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) A FELBRIDGE clergyman was this week branded "a Nazi" and accused of "religious persecution" after an incident at the Saint Hill Manor headquarters of the Scientologists as the row between cult members and established churches deepened. The Rev Stephen Bowen, vicar of St John's, says angry cult members ordered him from the grounds and then filmed him and companions accompanying a Zimbabwean Scientologist trying to get his passport back from cult officials. "I was accompanying the man in case he needed ...
Apr 23, 1993
Protest marks opening of town's new Scientology bookshop — East Grinstead Courier (UK)More: link
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East Grinstead Courier (UK) [Picture / Caption: Scientologists celebrate the opening of the new Hubbard Dianetics bookshop in East Grinstead] [Picture / Caption: Graham Threlfell had his own personal message for both sides in the dispute] [Picture / Caption: Protestors held a vigil outside the new bookshop and distributed leaflets in which they denounce Scientology] LOCAL CHURCH leaders have spoken out against the opening of a Dianetics bookshop in East Grinstead. The bookshop opened in London Road, on Saturday afternoon, where Videographic video rental used ...
Nov 26, 1992
'Best way to make money is to found a religion' — Chichester Observer (UK)More: link
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Chichester Observer (UK) Jesus is a fantasy Implanted in our minds millions of years ago, according to the Scientology cult. And L Ron Hubbard, who founded Dianetics and Scientology, dabbled in anti-Christian rituals with a disciple of black magician Aleister Crowley. Former Scientologists Jon Atack and Bonnie Woods spoke to a Chichester audience of head teachers and representatives from churches, Scouts, local councils and the police. Mr Atack, who thought the city was the cult's latest target, said Scientology has "200 front groups" including ...
Nov 26, 1992
Cult girl 'frightened to talk' — Chichester Observer (UK)
Sep 17, 1992
'It's immoral, sinister and corrupt' says judge — Chichester Observer (UK)
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